Five Things

With every new blog I become attached to, I always find myself wondering more about what the reader is like. Luckily, there has been a trend floating around the blogosphere lately called "Five things" in which you list five fun facts about yourself to help your readers get to know you a little better. Thanks to Emily, I was tagged last week and now I'll get to share a few of my own facts! 

1. I have two high school diplomas. This is one of the strangest facts about me, and I think it always has people thinking I somehow graduated from two different high schools when I tell them! Funny story though, when I graduated from my high school in 2008, our administration overlooked one minor {and very important!} detail of the diploma... education was spelled wrong! So we all received misspelled diplomas, and wound up receiving a second one with education spelled correctly a couple of weeks later. I still have the first one tucked behind the second. :)

2. I have a fear of overly ripened potatoes. Again, very strange, but you know how potatoes can go bad and get those white pokey-looking things that begin to come out of them? I think they look very alien-like and for some reason it horrifies me when if I see one in the pantry. My mom, however, thinks it's hilarious and will throw one at me if she finds one. 

3. I have an obsession with grilled cheese. Ask anyone of my friends, and they will explain my love for the food. What's even more weird is that I really only like to eat the sandwiches now with fruit melted between the cheese slices. Hey, don't knock it til you try it! 

4. I don't have all of the feeling in my bottom lip. When I was a freshman in college, I got my wisdom teeth taken out and the doctor hit a nerve during the surgery. Since then, I've lost partial feeling in my lower right gums/lip. I'd say 85% has come back, but when it first happened I was terrified I'd never regain feeling again!

5. I am in love with anything/everything Titanic. This started at age 7, right after the movie came out, and hasn't stopped. I have read more books and watched more specials on the ill-fated ship than anything else, and I used to always tell my dad if I could have one wish in the entire world it'd be to go down to see the Titanic wreckage with him. :) The story still fascinates me every time I pick up something to read on it.

Tag, you're it! : Lindsay, Amy, and Hannah

Chasing her dreams on the water

One of my closest girlfriends, Rachael, has been dancing for as long as I've known her (which is a pretty long time!) We've always shared a love of fashion, and she was one girl who never cared about what others said of her style. I can remember her dressing up as Edie Sedgwick in high school, long before any of us knew who Edie was, and wearing vintage pieces that made girls stop and stare in the hallways of high school.

However, that's just Rachael as a fashionista. Beyond her amazing sense of style is her ambition, which is stronger than any girl I've ever known. Her dream is to be a Rockette, and though she's tried out a couple of times, she will stop at nothing until she succeeds. Until then, she was granted an incredible opportunity to dance on a cruise ship in South America for seven (SEVEN!) months. 

She just began a blog, called Dance Life, to chronicle her life as a dancer on a ship, and to share the details of chasing her dream. Check it out, and follow if you like. I promise you will not be disappointed!

xxo

Style inspiration: Julia Engel

Julia Engel makes my top-three for favorite blogger style. The outfits she posts on her blog, Gal Meets Glam, are effortless and original. My favorite look recently has to be her ASOS ice cream top, captured in the first of the photos below. Paired with white pants, she pulls it off perfectly (plus, it's on sale now!). If you haven't checked out her blog, be sure to head on over.

          

          

Photos from Pinterest, via Gal Meets Glam.